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Still here.

// February 16th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Art, Life

It happens every time.

I start posting when I’m bored and between quarters at school, then I go back and things get busy again.

I’m only in two classes this quarter – Voice in Cinema and 4D Design.  Voice is mainly just a dialogue editing/ADR class. Dialogue is kind of tedious to work with, but as I’ve found with most sound projects, the end result is very rewarding. Plus, knowing what dialogue editors look for is really nice to know for Production Sound work. 4d has been a nice surprise – after an extremely stressful experience with 3d this Summer, I was expecting the worst…but the professor is really open with the projects and I’ve had a lot of fun working on them. The type of audio/visual installation art that we learn about/create in this class is actually something that really interests me – it’s a chance to be nerdy and creative.

Some artists in this field to check out:

Camille Utterback is a video installation artist – she has been both a painter and a programmer, and her current art is at the intersection of the two trades.

Theo Jansen’s work is more sculpturally based. He creates these giant “animals” made from steel, wood, and other materials that move unlike any living thing. Kind of creepy but the engineering behind it is incredible.

More to come!

It’s..a comfortable 65 degrees…outside

// December 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life, Music

Merry Christmas friends!

James Taylor is a must around the holidays..

I’m loving Dylan’s wig in this one. See if you can spot him.

and finally, something a bit more classic.

Christmas and Vinyl

// December 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Life, Music

Christmas shopping is finished. I don’t think I care to visit another mall until this time next year.

Tallahassee is starting to depress me. It’s one place where the toll the economy is taking is painfully obvious. The Tallahassee Mall is all but closed down, (save for the AMC, which will probably survive no matter what) and today I was very saddened to take what was probably my last trip to Vinyl Fever, a pretty cool local record shop. It’s going out of business in a few weeks, and while I know it’s not the only place in town, it was kind of special for me.

During my last two years of high school, a trip to Vinyl Fever was a weekly event.  My brother and I and our friends Matt and Cody would make the trip to Tally just for this store (and the occasional quick stop by Goodwill on the way out). We would suggest albums to each other, argue about our choices, and then fight for who got to pick what we listened to first on the way home. Local artists would always leave burned copies of their barely-produced EP’s on the counter, which would all end up going home with us, providing us with hours of entertainment and laughs (sadly at their expense).

This is where I discovered Jeff Buckely’s Grace, where I picked out my first Creedence album, and the place I went to pick out posters for my dorm room the week before I left for college.

Lots of memories, and I’ll miss knowing it’s there.

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2005 era (no deer were harmed by us in the taking of this photo)

2005/06 era (no deer were harmed by us in the taking of this photo)

800 miles

// December 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life

Spring Break? I think so.

“Makeshift”

// December 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Film/TV, Life, Sound

“Makeshift”, SCAD’s entry this year for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award, wrapped shooting last night. I think we’ve got a winner.

It being a 50 second commercial with no dialogue meant that my job as production sound mixer was pretty relaxed. We went way overboard on equipment, but it’s always fun to try out all the sound toys – this is the first shoot where I’ve had talkback with my boom op, and that’ll be essential from now on.

It moves into post now (I’m hoping to work a little on the sound editing side of things in a few weeks) and we’ll find out the winner in a few months.

sound cart

Lebanon Plantation set

On-set

sound team (post-rain)

Shooting downtown @ trusteest

Dadgummit.

// December 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Life

As a life-long FSU fan (it’s in my blood), this is a hard thing to see happen…glad I got to be there for his last home game.

Go Noles.

Flip Cam!

// November 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life

Just a little test with my flip cam for my new blog.

I’m trapped, once again.

// November 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Life

A domain name with no website, a twitter feed that wasn’t updated in months, and a forgotten blog with no author.

Well, I’m back.

www.drewhudson.com
(an obvious work in progress, demo reels on the way)

www.twitter.com/drewh06
(specific lists for audio tweeps and friends? I’m hooked.)

www.tumblr.com/drewhudson
(where you are now. I’ve always loved tumblogs for their simplicity in design and functionality)

I might even get that flickr profile going again.

See you soon…

-Drew